My Dream's But A Drop Of Fuel For A Nightmare

tony said that it's about the bad omens that you see in dreams....he even made a little research about them when he was writting this song.....heh he and Kezia123 sonata arctica aren't boring!!!! they couldn't be even if they tried....

I'm not a native English speaker and I'm pretty young, so I probably misunderstood this song (and sorry for any grammatical mistakes I might have made), but I think it's about a man who can't control his own feelings.

He feels depressed, but he does not act like that to the outside world. He lives in a happy dream, but because he's actually very sad, that dream turns into a nightmare for him. The happy outside world is like a kitten scratching him, and his life is like a theater piece. His friends aren't real friends, they are weak translucent ghosts haunting his nightmare. He isn't actually dreaming, but his life is like a dream. Metaphorically, he looks in a mirror to see himself, but that mirror breaks. He steps on the broken glass of that mirror - he cuts his feet with the ruins of his own life, the broken glass, which means he cannot handle his life. He tries to avoid it, but he can't, he steps on the broken glass twice.

Also, he literally dreams about his mask of happiness. He dreams about all kinds of happy things and he tries to believe those dreams. He tries to believe the 'happy painting', but it just isn't reality. He is stuck in himself, he is his own prison. The dream turns into a wild ballet. The few good parts of his life (the parts he uses to pretend everything is going well) and the real bad parts get mixed together. His dream turns into a nightmare, he tries to kill himself in his dream, he jumps, he falls, he expects to die, then he wakes up again to continue living in his non-existing happy life.

It's impossible to live in such a bad dream, so in the end, he actually commits suicide by jumping off the carousel. That colourful carousel is pretended to be his so-called good life, and it finally kills him.

Everything written here is my own interpretation. You might or might not agree with me.

Basically this song is about a man who cannot control his own life. He is depressed, but wears a mask of happiness, which makes him a clown. In the song his “dream” can be interpreted as a nightmare — or his life. We’ll take a closer look at that.

As he falls asleep, his dream turns into a nightmare and he steps twice on the broken glass he attempts to avoid. He cuts his feet with the ruins of his own life, which he cannot avoid neither handle. He does not want to sleep and he fears the darkness. He doesn’t want to face his nightmares, which means he wants to escape the problems in his life. Eventually he falls asleep though, and we’re presented with many paradoxes describing a nightmare, in where his friends are haunting him as ghosts. His nightmare turns into a wild ballet as everything is mixed together, and soon he wakes up to face his life.

After he awakes he can’t tell dream from reality, which means that his life is like a nightmare — it’s ruined. He keeps thinking about the good things in life that he ruined, and that everything he does is wrong. He cannot undo the things he has done. As he is drawn into the nightmare again, it becomes his reality.

Now he is aware that he has to sweep the broken glass, but he just can’t do it. He can’t fix his own life, and he realises that his body is his own prison. To escape the nightmare, he commits suicide, and that is described by him waking up and jumping off the carousel, ending all the good, bad and the ugly dreams.

this song its so great i like it so much

and i dunno what means, i think and its obviously its talking about someone who is sleeping and in the dream that is turning into a nightmares he is in dream that he don't know if he is sleep or awake "I can’t sleep, fear darkness Go through the emotions, Did I fall asleep?" and all the next part are so confusing its all like a crazy nightmare

after that he awake "Falling, falling...I'm falling, I'm falling, I'm falling, I'm falling awake" and i think he is thinking about the dream after that there are a part i can't understand and finally he says that only believe in the dreams that let you sleep i think he is saying believe in your dreams not in your nightmares

i dunno if its wrong all i can understand its that.

Well, Crimson is right... They interviewed Tony, and he said its about bad omens.

Someone watches a liiiitle too much Naruto.

Seems to me about people who believe signs in dreams and skepticism about omens in dreams and stuff.

this sone is awsome ! sonata arctica are usually boring after a few songs, but this song is diffrent from everything i've heard from them before, and i liked it.

This song kinda describes Gaara from Naruto if ya ask me..and these lyrics could use editing lol